Letters: North County, May 25, 2013

IRS debate rages on

Right-wing Republicans like the Tea Party have been blatant about their hostility toward supporting the middle or poorer classes. The IRS should be receiving accolades for doing their job objectively instead of being chastised for targeting Republican right-wing groups! It is ludicrous that the Tea Party and others of their ilk are applying for the tax benefits for being a charitable organization.

Morris Shechet

Oceanside

In response to “Firestorm over IRS intensifies” (May 18): The IRS scandal typifies the Obama administration. It’s Chicago politics to the max. Many were terrified that their government would pull such idiotic stunts once the facts were in. They have politicized the IRS. We underestimated them, but the mainstream media has finally gotten involved.

But the worst is yet to come! Soon Obamacare will kick in, with its provision to hire 15,000 more “agents” to enforce and administer this monstrosity. They will have police powers. They will be in charge of the 47 major components and their power, as we know, is limitless and they don’t care about using it. This will include intimidation and threats that will make your head swim.

Having the IRS, with its record of unconstitutional and reckless practices, running amok is terrifying. Don’t think it can’t happen here — it can and it is, right now and right before our eyes.

Thomas Jefferson has said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. He was right and we should heed his advice. Obamacare must be repealed and we must fight to make our country free!

Charles Hartman

San Marcos

Waiting for outcry from the left

Can you just imagine the uproar if Fast and Furious, IRSgate, APgate, Benghazi, etc., had happened under President George W. Bush’s watch? Any one of these scandals would’ve gotten him impeached, yet our Teflon president golfs away while the left sweeps all of them under the carpet.

When critics of the president are targeted for retribution, we have sunk to the level of North Korea, Iran, China, etc. Our founding fathers would be appalled — and then targeted for being so. I’d say the same if Mitt Romney were in office.

Where is the outcry from the left? I thought they’d at least care about the First Amendment, if not the Second. These are truly scary times.

Jack Delessio

Valley Center

Cheap, shoddy, dishonest

I refer to the opinion piece by Wes Pruden (“Left indifferent to Benghazi failings,” Opinion, May 18. What a piece of cheap, shabby, shoddy, dishonest work! He says that Democrats and liberals are willing to concede that the deaths in Benghazi “were a shame and maybe even a tragedy.” That is a gratuitous and unsupportable, and unsupported, insult.

He also describes the ambassador and his three colleagues as being “allowed to twist slowly, slowly in the toxic smoke of the burning consulate.” Slowly? The whole tragedy was over in a matter of hours. And instead of any attempt to address the real difficulties of providing timely assistance he regales us with a series of stirring examples of American feats of arms in successfully rescuing Americans from the enemy in other conflicts.